The Keystone Pops!
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ミカルゲの要石! Mikaruge's Keystone!
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First broadcast
Japan
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November 29, 2007
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United States
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May 10, 2008
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English themes
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Japanese themes
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Credits
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The Keystone Pops! (Japanese: ミカルゲの要石! Mikaruge's Keystone!) is the 56th episode of the Diamond & Pearl series, and the 522nd episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on November 29, 2007 and in the United States on May 10, 2008.
SynopsisMajor eventsCharacters
Humans
* No official credit was given for this character.
Pokémon
Trivia
- Team Rocket's final pose for their motto in this episode refers to Hindi/Chinese myth of world creation: the world is held by four elephants (Phanpy), which stand on a turtle (Torkoal), which stands on a snake that bites its own tail (Arbok).
- Each of these Pokémon were on a main character's team at some point in the anime. Arbok belonged to Jessie, while Phanpy and Torkoal belonged to Ash.
- This is the first episode of the anime to mention Aura (and Ash's proficiency in it), which was a major plot point in Lucario and the Mystery of Mew and as a result the movie is made canon by this episode.
- Buizel and Aipom switched places in Ash's and Dawn's teams in the opening and ending, respectively, corresponding with their trade that happened in the previous episode.
- Music from Lucario and the Mystery of Mew was used as background music during the old woman's story and the ending scene.
- Professor Oak's lecture: Mismagius
- Pokémon senryū: ムウマージ じゅもんとなえて やみにきえ Muumāji, jumon to naete, yami ni kie
- This is the first Pokémon USA/DuArt Film & Video episode to feature Dan Green (appearing in this episode as the voice of Spiritomb), who had previously worked on the 4Kids dub.
- The episode was originally scheduled to first air in the United States on May 3, 2008, but was pulled due to unknown reasons. Due to this, some fans were initially led to believe this episode was being skipped in the dub.
- None of Brock's Pokémon appear in this episode.
- The title for this episode comes from the movie series Keystone Kops.
- This episode marks the only time Dawn is seen using Aipom between the last episode (when she was traded) and Journey to the Unown! (which is the episode where she evolves into Ambipom).
- This is one of the few episodes of the Diamond & Pearl series where Dawn's Piplup does not appear.
- Jessie calls Spiritomb "Iron Chef", referring to the Japanese TV show of the same name.
Errors
- When Spiritomb is chasing Team Rocket, at one point, Jessie tells it to look "there". When Spiritomb looks back, Team Rocket has run away. Looking startled, Spiritomb's eyes both have a spiral in them, when originally, only its left eye has a spiral in it.
Dub edits
In other languages
- German: Die Legende lebt!
- Latin American Spanish: ¡La reaparición de Spiritomb!
- Iberian Spanish: ¡La Piedra Base Reaparece!
- Brazilian Portuguese: O lacre quebrado!
- Polish: Kamienny problem
- Dutch: De sluitsteen floept open!
- Italian: Un nuovo nemico!
- Finnish: Kiven sisällä!
- Czech: Ústřední kámen všeho
- Hebrew: אבן המפתח